To a healing plant, lākṣā
Night [is thy] mother, cloud (nábhas) [thy] father, Aryaman thy grandfather; silācī́, verily, by name art thou; thou art sister of the gods.
Atharva Veda
To a healing plant, lākṣā
To a healing plant, lākṣā
Night [is thy] mother, cloud (nábhas) [thy] father, Aryaman thy grandfather; silācī́, verily, by name art thou; thou art sister of the gods.
He who drinketh thee liveth; thou rescuest a man (púruṣa); for thou art a sustainer (bhartrī́) of all, and a hiding-place (? nyáñcanī) of people.
Tree after tree thou climbest, like a lustful girl; conquering, standing by (? pratyā-sthā), winner (spáraṇī) verily by name art thou.
If (yát) by a staff, if by an arrow, or if by flame (? háras) a sore is made, of that thou art relief; relieve thou this man.
Out of the excellent plakṣá thou arisest, out of the açvatthá, the khadirá, the dhavá, the excellent banyan (nyagródha), the parṇá; do thou come to us, O arundhatī́.
Thou gold-colored, fortunate, sun-colored one, of most wondrous forms; mayest thou go to the hurt (? rutá), O relief; relief, verily, by name art thou.
Thou gold-colored, fortunate, vehement (? çúṣmā), hairy-bellied one—sister of the waters art thou, O lākṣā; the wind was thy soul.
Silācī́ by name—thy father, O goat-brown one, is a maid's son; Yama's horse that is dark brown (çyāvá)—with its mouth (? blood ?) art thou sprinkled.
Fallen from the horse's mouth, she invaded the trees; having become a winged brook (? sarā́), do thou come to us, O arundhatī́.
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